Plant for the manufacture of oil-cloth



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I O. TEMPLETON. PLANT FOR THE MANUFACTURE 0F OIL CLOTH.

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PLANT-FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL CLOTH. No. 529,217. Patented Nov. 13, 1894.

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PLANT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL CLOTH. No. 529,217. Patented NOV. 13, 1894.

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CHARLES TEMPLETON,'OF AKRON, OHIO.

PLANT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL-CLOTH.

SIEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,217, dated November 13, 1894.

Application filedJ'une 16,1892- Serial No. 436,906- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES TEMPLETON, of Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plants for the Manufacture of Oil-Cloth and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in plants for the manufacture of oil-cloth, more especially to attachments for the printingmachines employed in such establishments, whereby the printed cloth is fed or conveyed directly from said machine to the rack in the drying-room where the printed cloth is dried.

My invention also consists in mechanism for operatively connecting with the printingmachine the mechanism employed for con- I veying' the cloth along the rack in the dryingroom, and my invention consists, moreover, in certain features of construction, and in combination of parts, hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of attachments to the printing-machine and connected mechanism embodying my invention, so much of the printing machine and so much of arack of the drying-room being shown as it is considered necessary to illustrate my invention, portions being broken away to reduce the size of the drawings. Fig. 2 is plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective in detail.

A represents the supporting -frame of a printing-machine used for printing or impressing figured designs upon oil cloth:

B represents the pattern or printing-roll or cylinder and O the impression cylinder, the same extending transversely of and being supported by the frame-work of the machine and cylinder O being adjustable relative to the pattern roll or cylinder, and operatively connected with the driving-power, all substantially as employed in the machines heretofore devised.

The supporting-frame, at each side of the machine, is provided with a rearwardly-extending arm,D, said pairs of arms being pref- 5o erably bolted, as at d, to the supporting-frame.

At the forward end of arms D and extending transversely of the machine, is supported a shaft, E, that at one end and outside of the supporting-frame, has operatively mountedthereon a spur-gear, E, that meshes with a driving-pinion G operatively mounted on shaft or spindle G supported by the framework of the machine and provided with a driving-pulley G Just inside the supporting-frame, at the opposite side of the machine, shaft E has operatively mounted thereon a sprocket-wheel E, that communicates motion, by means of an endless chain E to a sprocket-wheel, H, operatively mounted on one trunnion of a roller H, the trunnions of said roller having bearing in suitable boxes rigid with posts or standards a bolted as shown to the top of the supporting-frame of the machine, the other trun- 7o nion of the roller having operatively mounted thereon a sprocket-wheel, H that communicates motion, by means of an endless-chain, H to a sprocket-wheel, I, operatively mounted on shaft I that hasbearing in boxes rigid with arms or brackets D. One trunnion, preferably said last-menti0ned trunnion of roller H has also operatively mounted thereon a sprocket-wheel, H that communicates motion, by means of an endless-chain H to a sprocket wheel K operatively mounted on a trunnion of a roller K, the trunnions whereof have bearing in boxes rigid with arms or brackets D.

Shaft 1 communicates mot-ion by means of a sprocket-wheel I on one end of the shaft and an endless chain I to a sprocket-wheel L operatively mounted on a shaft L that has bearing in the lower end of bars M, pivoted at their opposite ends to arms or brackets D 0 above, as at m.

Shaft L, by means of two sprocket-wheels O, at opposite ends of said shaft, respectively, and a pain of endless-chains O',. communicates motion to sprocket-wheels P loosely mounted on shafts or spindles P that are located at opposite sides of the adjacent rack R of a drying-room R, the partition between Above shafts P, and also supported by hangers Q, that support shafts P, but extending from hanger -to hanger, is located ashaft S, to which motion is communicated by means of a sprocket-wheel S operatively mounted on said shaft and an endless chain S operatively connecting said sprocket-wheel with a sprocket-wheel I operatively mounted on shaft I.

Shafts is intergeared, as at S with shafts or spindles, P, and the latterhave operatively mounted thereon, at a suitable interval apart, two corresponding sprocket-wheels. P and P represent endless chains leading over said sprocket-wheels, and over and lengthwise of the rails ("of the track of the rack in dryingroom.

Thecloth-to beimprintedor impressed (and shown in heavy dotted lines) is fed over a roller, T, supported at the -bottom of the framework of the machine, upward over a tension-roller U, supported by arms or brackets D; thence overa rollerW supported at the top at or near the for-ward ends of arms or brackets D; thence downward over impressioncylinder 0, between the latter and pattern-roller or cylinder B; thence upward over roller I-I, located, as hereinbefore described, at the top of the supporting-frame, and thence over roller K at the rear end of armsor brackets D to chains 0 that, at suitable intervals, are provided with dogs or projections 0 adapted to receive sticks O that engage the 'cloth, and fold the same as required, and as illustrated. Chains 0' con vey the sticks and the cloth to the dryingroom and deliver the same to chains P that, as hereinbefore described, travel over and lengthwise of the rails of the track of the rack of the drying-room.

Bars M, that as hereinbefore indicated support the driving-mechanismof endless chains 0' have pivoted thereto, respectively, a link or rod, Y, that at its opposite end, is pivoted to a ratchet-wheel Y. The two ratchetwheels are operatively, mounted, in common, upon a shaft Y that is supported by arms or brackets D,said ratchet-wheels being located just atone side of the respective arm or bracket D and adapted to be engaged and locked against rotation in the one direction by a pawl Z pivoted to said arm or bracket D, the one end of shaft Y being provided outsideof the respective supporting-arm or bracket D, with a crank or handle, Y by manipulating which in the one direction or the other chainsO' may be simultaneously tightened or loosened as required.

One of the trunnions of roller H has also operatively mounted thereon a sprocketwheel, h, to which is operatively connected, by means of an endless chain, 71/, the clothconveying mechanism of a rack (not shown) in a drying-room forward of the printingpress whereby the cloth from said rack may be fed or conveyed directly to the printingmachine. The cloth-conveying mechanism of the drying-rack just referred to is substantially the same as that of rack R in dryingroom R which receives the printed cloth from the printing-machine as hereinbefore described, and therefore, it is not considered necessary to illustrate the same.

It will be observed from the foregoingthat the cloth may be conveyed through the printing machine, from one dryingn'oom to the other, without interruption.

What I claim isl. The combination with the supportingframe of a printing-machine of the variety indicated, of a pair of rearwardly-extending arms or brackets D rigid with said frame, a pair of bars, M, pivoted to said arms or brackets, a shaft, L, supported at or near the lower end of said bars, a pair of sprocketwheels operatively mounted n pon said shaft, cloth-bearing-chainsO"operativelyconnected with the aforesaid shaft, and means for adjusting the aforesaid bars as required to tighten saidchains, mechanism substantially as described, for communicating motion to said sprocket wheels, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the supportingframe of a printing-machine of the variety indicated, of a pair of rearwardly-extending arms or brackets D rigid with said supportingframe a pair of bars M, pivoted to said rearwardly-extending arms or bracketsja shaft L supported by said pair of pivoted bars, a pair of sprocket-wheels operatively mounted on said shaft and operated substantially as described, cloth-bearing-chains O operatively connected with said shaft, and mechanism substantially as indicated for simultaneously moving said pivotedbars on their fulcrum in the one direction or the other and for locking the same in position against movement in the opposite direction, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of April, 1892.

CHARLES TEMPLETON.

Witnesses:

F. H. STUART, O. H. Donne. 

